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Track Listing CD1: 1. Heywete - Tesfa Maryam Kidane 2. Yekermo Sew - Mulatu Astatqe 3. Yekatit - Mulatu Astatqe 4. Enken Yelelebesh - Girma Beyene 5. Ewnet Yet Lagegnesh - Bahta Gebre-Heywet 6. Gubelye - Mulatu Astatqe 7/8. Ere Mela Mela/Metche New - Mahmoud Ahmed 9 .Tchero Adari Negn - Alemayehu Eshete 10.Telantena Zare - Alemayehu Eshete 11.Muziqawi Silt - Wallias Band 12.Gedawo - Ayalew Mesfin & Black Lion Band 13.Tchuheten Betsemu - Tlahoun Gessesse 14.Tezeta - Menelik Wesnatchew CD2: 1. Mother's Love - Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou 2. Sema - Tlahoun Gessesse 3. Milenu - Tewelde Redda 4. Embi Ila - Beyene Habte 5. Tezeta - Mulatu Astatqe 6. Set Alamenem - Girma Beyene 7. Yemendjar Shega - Muluqen Mellesse & Dahlak Band 8. Antchi Hoye - Getatchew Mekurya 9. Kulun Mankwalesh ...
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Sleeve Notes by archivist Francis Falceto. As in the rest of the world, for Ethiopia the 60s were the years of ultimate postwar modernity. They began in violence with a failed coup d’état (December 1960) in which The Imperial Body Guard, as well as many of the musicians that made up its bands, was implicated. But after this warning shot the ageing Emperor Haile Sellassie I compromised anddisplayed an increasingly progressive approach. Ethiopia became an international showcase of non-alignment and African unity, and Addis Ababa, capital and only metropolis of a very centralised empire, the very essence of modernist audacity. Music ...
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Here at ethiopiques.info, we’re not the only people to be digging deep and writing about the incredible story of the Ethiopiques. Remarkably, the mainstream UK press have also got bitten by it! Below are 3 great articles... [More]
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While seeing the original 1970s Ethiopiques artists live might well be a once in a lifetime experience, there are a few other modern bands out there also flying the flag . Below are listed our choice of the best modern... [more]
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The Return of Live Music
After a recent very pleasant conversation with the always amiable Francis Falceto, I was fortunate to receive a CD containing all the publicity he had collected over his 20 years of promoting Ethiopian music. Amongst the many hundreds of scans and texts contained within I found a folder called ‘The Very Best of Ethiopiques’ which I immediately opened with great interest. While other folders had many long and detailed articles relating to the Ethiopiques artists and the individual Ethiopiques releases, the folder I was browsing through contained mostly short and predicable reviews from mainstream media sources. Then I found this: Forum Threat Title: ‘How much are the Ethiopiques... [More]
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Latest on Tue, 08:58 pm: Just listening to it now and it fills my heart with joy and sorrow at the same time...
: Where has this genre been all my life? truly remarkable music with a fascinating history.
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